Soy shippers explore political fix for Highway Trust Fund

There has been no shortage of proposals in recent years to plug the widening gap in the federal Highway Trust Fund between user fee-receipts and obligations to pay states for 90 percent of the improvement costs on the deteriorating national highway system. The Soy Transportation Coalition thinks it might have a solution for overcoming the political fear in Washington of raising taxes: addition by subtraction. The Highway Trust Fund is likely to go over a fiscal cliff by the end of September when the balance in the HTF is projected to fall below zero and the Department of Transportation has to implement a moratorium on making commitments to reimburse states for new projects. Many industry groups have said t...